Clinical treatment of mental illness.
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Preventing Suicide: A Global Imperative
World Health Organization · 2014
Compiles the first global accounting of suicide as a public-health problem, arguing most suicides are preventable through restricting access to…
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Primary sources and full treatments.
Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia
Emil Kraepelin · 1919
Classifies a range of psychotic presentations as a single progressively deteriorating disease he calls dementia praecox, arguing the eventual outcome…
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World Health Organization
Compiles the first global accounting of suicide as a public-health problem, arguing most suicides are preventable through restricting access to common methods rather than being an inevitable consequence of mental illness.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Provides algorithm-based protocols letting non-specialist health workers assess and manage depression, psychosis, epilepsy and substance use disorders, arguing that closing the mental health treatment gap in low-resource settings requires task-sharing beyond psychiatrists rather than waiting for more of them.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Compiles country-level estimates showing depression and anxiety together cost the global economy over a trillion dollars a year in lost productivity, and argues scaling up basic treatment access pays for itself many times over.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Emil Kraepelin
Classifies a range of psychotic presentations as a single progressively deteriorating disease he calls dementia praecox, arguing the eventual outcome rather than any one symptom is what defines it.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Emil Kraepelin
Groups mania and melancholia into a single manic-depressive disease defined by its episodic, fully recovering course, distinguishing it from the progressively deteriorating dementia praecox on prognosis rather than symptoms alone.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Leo Kanner
Describes eleven children sharing an unrecognised pattern of extreme aloneness and insistence on sameness present from birth, naming it 'autistic disturbances of affective contact' and founding the diagnosis later called autism.
link checked 17 Sept 2026John F. J. Cade
Reports the first clinical use of lithium salts to calm manic excitement, launching the search for chemical treatments targeted at specific psychiatric states rather than general sedation.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Carl R. Rogers
Argues that a therapist offering genuineness, unconditional positive regard and accurate empathic understanding is sufficient by itself to produce constructive personality change, regardless of theoretical technique or diagnosis.
Donald F. Klein
Shows that imipramine relieves spontaneous panic attacks without touching the anticipatory anxiety that follows them, arguing from this drug dissociation that panic disorder is biologically distinct from generalised anxiety rather than a matter of degree.
Stanley Rachman & Padmal de Silva
Finds that intrusive unwanted thoughts closely resembling clinical obsessions are nearly universal in people without OCD, arguing that the disorder lies in how such thoughts are appraised and managed rather than in their mere presence.
Gerald F. M. Russell
Names and characterises bulimia nervosa as a distinct syndrome of binge-eating and self-induced vomiting in patients of normal weight, arguing it carries a worse prognosis than the anorexia it can be mistaken for.
Irving Kirsch et al.
Pools industry trial data submitted to the FDA to argue that antidepressants clear a clinically meaningful margin over placebo only in the most severely depressed patients, because published trials alone overstate the drugs' benefit.
link checked 17 Sept 2026